Website And Web Application Security In 2022

The security of web services, as a rule, means ensuring the safety of data and their inaccessibility to external parties, as well as the possibility of realizing the ability to cyber attacks and not be exposed to viruses.

The security of web applications depends on the quality of their program code, on the qualifications of the system administrator and on the competencies of users, and unique access to sensitive information.

That is, significant security threats – hacks and data leaks – can be:

• Vulnerabilities of the website/application itself to cybertransfer — for example, lack of protection against password brute force, the possibility of injecting external code (XSS, SQL injection, lack of protection against CSRF)
• Insufficient system performance or increased resource processing of raw materials, which leads to a vulnerability to attacks such as “disease denial” – (D)DoS
• Mistakes made by the web server administrator – untimely software updates or insecure service configuration
• Ignorance or non-observance of banal security rules – simple passwords, data entry on phishing sites, infection with PC viruses.

Recommendations from webcheck.top

Trust your security requirements to experienced personnel. Beginners tend to implement application efficiency, but may not be able to respond to “denial of efficiency” attacks.

The administrative management of the server on the control database must be confirmed by a specialist, most sites infected with viruses occur due to the fact that no one updates the server software, and a lot of data leaks are covered with incorrect configuration of server services (from the banal – open “in the world” storage ports systems). ).

Teach users the basics of information security, cut rights to the minimum necessary for work, and tweak monitoring to sensitive information. A huge number of problems are connected precisely with the incompetence of non-technical personnel, arising both from banal incompetence (got caught fishing, “accidentally” deleted data) and malicious intent (theft of the customer base, draining orders to competitors, etc.)

If you have doubts about the security of your site, order a security audit from an independent company. In our practice, we have been on both sides of the process – and we have tested this third-party development of vulnerabilities, and developed our verification systems – especially a lot and reliably in the banking / financial sector.